GEORGE GREEN'S ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 1189155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of housing for poor women who are the inhabitants of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The charity has built eight new units of accommodation in Poplar in 2015 and purchased and renovated three flats in Bow in 2018.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING FOR POOR WOMEN WHO, EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION, ARE THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity achieved a net surplus of £26,061 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves standing at £1,878,180. Free reserves carried forward were £45,863, while the trustees maintain a reserves policy requiring liquid assets of at least £220,000 based on their 11 units. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SCB (Accountants) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £580k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacinta Balchinchair
• Graham Barker
• Sandra James
• Sebastien Villard
• Sinead Gavin

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.